By: Rabbi Steven Pruzansky ITEM: The Jerusalem Post (March 10) vividly recounted the heroism of Capt. David Shapira, a former student at Mercaz HaRav, who, hearing gunfire at the yeshiva during the recent terrorist atrocity, grabbed his weapon, left his nearby home, and ran to the rescue of Jewish children: “At the entrance to the […]

A SHORT GUIDE TO THOSE OBSESSED WITH PEACE Moshe Sharon “Everybody says that his donkey is a horse.” “There is no tax on words.” (Two Arab proverbs) On December 25, 1977, at the very beginning of the negotiations between Israel and Egypt in Ismailia, I had the opportunity to have a short discussion with Muhammad […]

In a major speech in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama tried to stanch the recent hemorrhaging of his support among moderate Democrats and independents. At issue, of course, is the senator’s longtime pastor and family friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose vitriolic rants against white people, the United States, and Israel have been airing almost […]

By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Frontpage Interview’s guest today is P. David Hornik, a Frontpage columnist, freelance writer and translator living in Tel Aviv. He has also contributed in recent years to American Spectator Online, ynetnews.com, the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Press, IsraelNationalNews.com, and others. He blogs at http://pdavidhornik.typepad.com/ and can […]

Last week’s tragic murder of eight Mercaz Harav students highlights a profound fact of life in the Middle East that too many simply refuse to face. There is in the Arab world a bloodlust for killing Jews that neither passage of time nor entrance into modernity can diminish. In his eulogy for the slain students, […]

March 16, 2008 / 9 Adar II 5768 The following was written by Noah Jacobson, a graduate of the Robert M. Beren Academy, in the week following the attack at Yeshivat Merkaz Harav in Jerusalem. Noah is currently studying in Israel for the year at Yeshivat Shaalvim. It was around nine thirty on what had […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 13, 2008 To understand the strange twists that Hamas’s war against Israel has taken over the past week, it is instructive to cast a glance at the current situation in Pakistan. For in their dealings with Hamas, the Bush administration and the Olmert-Livni-Barak government have apparently been operating […]

Foreign Grassroots Support for Israel by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Palestine, Texas op-ed: ‘Israel should be able to fight back.’ Croatian soccer player living in Israel: ‘Time for Israel to hit back, hard.’ Excerpts from an op-ed in the Palestine Herald community newspaper in Palestine, Texas, by Wayne Stewart, entitled: Israel Should Be Able to Fight […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 13 March, 2008 Is the fixation on the need for a quick “exit strategy” a matter of ideology or are the ramifications of not retreating quickly so costly that they swamp the benefits? Many analysts have presented strong arguments for an effective reoccupation of Gaza but when they assume a priori, […]

by Bus Passenger We are all affected by what goes on in Israel. Every morning I take the number 35 bus line to work. It’s a quick ride and usually takes no more than 12 minutes. The third stop after I get on nearby the Jerusalem shuk is directly in front of Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav. […]